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From: "Janet WHITE" <>
Subject: [US-SHIPS-PRE1820] William WHITE & family from Kent, ENG to PA c1816
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:52:32 -0800


I am still searching for the ship on which William WHITE, of Rolvenden, Kent, England and his family sailed, from England to Pennsylvania c.1816 (between 8 Sept. 1815 and 12 Aug. 1817) He had been involved in the Napoleonic Wars and probably left due to the riots, high taxes, and few jobs, that followed the war.

William would have sailed with his wife, née Hannah RUSSELL, and 5 children aged 8 and under.

He lived 25 miles up the Schuylkill River in/north of Philidelphia, in Bucks Co. (Falls?), then removed to Elgin Co., ON, Canada, with, by then, his 10 children. He may have been travelling with a George HARVEY, from the Isle of Wight, by this time.

Would anyone be able to help me find the ship he came to the US on, about 1816?

Thanks in advance,

Janet WHTE

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